1931 Old Waldorf Bar Days by Albert Stevens Crockett

Hall of Fame was a favorite gathering-place for politicians on the East Side; and any place where Big Tim Sullivan, Tam– many Boss of the Bowery and the area contiguous, planted his "number nines" was good enough, as a rule, for anybody with political ambitions and of the same political faith, still nobody who kept needing bigger po– litical B. V. D.'s was apt to limit himself to association with the neighbors in his precinct or Assembly District. As his horizon broadened and his contacts increased, he would be sure to discover, first, the Hoffman House, whose bar was a great loafing place for Democrats, and then the newer and more fashionable Waldorf. Big Tim himself was occasionally seen in the Waldorf Bar, but I Big Tim long ago went on, and these two, particularly, who used to appear there occasionally, are still alive and apparently going very strong. At one corner of the bar counter was observed, one afternoon many years ago, an extremely youthful, slen– der, and particularly dapper young man, whose clothes were cut in a fashionable mode, with some of those im– provements Broadway has been known to add to the men's fashions of the hour. Every time the young gen– tleman would speak half a dozen men about him would roar heartily. "Who is it?" one asked. "Why, that's 'Jimmie' Walker. Everybody knows Jimmie. He's up at Albany, you know. They say Boss Murphy thinks he's a coming man and will go far. Why, you ought to know about Jimmie Walker. Haven't you heard that song, 'Will You Love Me in December as You Do in May?' Jimmie wrote it. TheysayTinPanAlleycame [41]